Two patients fatally stabbed by family member at Shizuoka hospital

A 73-year-old man fatally stabbed his spouse and daughter who had been staying in a neurology hospital in Shizuoka Prefecture on Wednesday earlier than apparently taking his personal life, police stated.

The police obtained an emergency name at round 2:20 p.m. about sufferers being attacked by the person, who was later recognized as Kenichi Saito, on the hospital in Fujinomiya.

Saito’s spouse, Chizuko, 72, and daughter Seiko, 40, had been hospitalized in separate rooms on the identical ground.

The daddy was discovered with a knife protruding from his physique in his spouse’s room by a nurse responding to an alarm, about quarter-hour after he had entered the hospital.

Based on a relative who lived close to the Saito residence in Fuji, additionally in Shizuoka Prefecture, the daughter grew to become ailing about 20 years in the past. Her dad and mom had been visiting her within the hospital regularly.

However the father started wanting depressed after his spouse was additionally admitted to the hospital round six months in the past, the relative stated.

The hospital, which opened in 1980, has been carried out over 500 surgical procedures a 12 months to deal with mind hemorrhage, mind tumors and different neurological issues, based on its web site.